# MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter

DevFeed: [MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/microlighter-syntax-highlighter-4262.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://css-tricks.com/microlighter-syntax-highlighter/>)

Author: Geoff Graham

Published: 2026-08-25T14:10:34Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [CSS-Tricks](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/css-tricks.md>)

Topics: [Syntax Highlighting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/syntax-highlighting.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [custom-highlight-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/custom-highlight-api.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [links](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/links.md>), [resource](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resource.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

MicroLighter is a CSS-focused syntax highlighter for code blocks that uses Custom Highlights and aims to provide themes, line numbers, multiple-language support, semantic markup, and modular features with less JavaScript and fewer dependencies. The article also reports a substantially smaller bundle than Prism after integrating it into a WordPress site.

## Source excerpt

Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.